Top 64 Quotes by Arthur Erickson

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.